A "Clean" song marked as "Explicit" - How to fix?

We bought the clean version of Kanye West "Stronger" and it won't play on the iTouch unless I enable explicit content. The song definitely appears as the "clean" version in iTunes, and I didn't see a way to allow or fix this under "Get Info".
I'd like to fix this if it is possible.
Thanks!

Happens to me all the time - I believe a network glitch as if I download via work/VPN i never have problem, but at home often occurs. Items download seemingly ok, but when I try and sync to iPad (converting to 128kbps) some tracks fail to convert.On investigation, I find that, as you described, only half the track has download, and when played in iTunes, the playback jumps to the next track.
The only fix I have found is to go to the Music folder in the library in iTunes, delete the broken tracks - you get prompted if you want to move to recycle bin - say Yes to physically delete the files.
Then go to iTunes > Purchased folder. Click on the "Download Previous Purchases" in the bottom right of the screen. Select the Music tab and the "Not in my Library" button (top right). Locate the tracks you just deleted, and redownload them.
You do not get charged again, it can just be a bit frustrating as it can take a couple of cycles through the above steps to get them down successfully. Typically, if I buy 2 albums (say, 50 tracks), between 10-15 will fail to download on first pass, and then a few will take a 3rd attempt.
It may be an Apple server issue, but as I never have problems if I download via a VPN link, I suspect it is a network or glitch in my local ISP.

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Hey mprangle,
Thanks for the question. The following resources may help to resolve your issue:
Trouble adding music to iTunes library or importing audio CD
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1387
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1277
Thanks,
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TS1424 I purchased the 2Pac All Eyez On Me (Remastered) album a few years back when it was released. I recently had to frag my computer and now when I redown load the album id downloading as a clean album instead of explicit how do I fix this?

I purchased the 2Pac All Eyez On Me (Remastered) album a few years back when it was released. I recently had to frag my computer and now when I redownload the album it's downloading as All Eyez On Me a clean album instead of explicit. The only ones that remained in explicit are the ones that I uploaded from my phone. How do I fix this?

Unfortunately you've discovered too late how important it is to maintain an up-to-date backup of your iTunes library (and all other data of value). You could, before wiping the drive, have considered making use of a commercial data recovery service that could (albeit at considerable cost) have extracted your library from the hard disk, even if virus infected.
In the absence of that option, you will need to restore the content of your library from its original sources:
Depending on your location, you may be able to re-download any iTunes Store purchases that are still available on the Store
Likewise, most digital purchases from Amazon (including auto-rip copies of purchased CDs) should be available from the Amazon Cloud and via the Amazon Music application - the same may be true of other commercial sources for digital downloads
Content imported from your CDs will have to imported again
The specific situation that you describe regarding the music imported from your friend's external HDD suggests that either the source is badly organized and/or originates from a source other than iTunes (other media players may use alternative tags for information like artist, title, album, etc. that are not wholly consistent with how iTunes handle these). Without details of the issues you're seeing it is difficult to suggest a remedy other than going through the media album-by-album, track-by-track, and correcting the inconsistencies.
In the absence of a backup or access to the original library data there is no option other than painstakingly recreating your library as described above. As you do so, you'll now realize how important creating and maintaining backups are - in my case I have at all times three separate duplicates of my library, in two different locations, where none is ever more than a week old compared to the content of my master library.

TS1717 I have exclamation marks (!) which has ruined my playlist as it doesn't function as it should. I was downloading music when a scan had started which I cancelled. Ever since then I've had these exclamation marks anyone know how to fix it?

I have exclamation marks at the beginning of the titles which has ruined my playlist as it doesn't function as it should. I was downloading music when a scan started which I then cancelled as it was slowing down my download. Ever since then I've had these exclamation marks and now these tunes are not transferrable and I've lost them in my music file on the ipod nano and so cannot reload them again. Anyone know how to remove the !!!'s or clean my files?

You get exclamation marks or dead tracks because iTunes can’t find the file. This can happen for a number of reasons:
The song file or a folder in its path was renamed
The song file or the folder it is in has been moved
The song file has been deleted
The device containing the song files e.g. external drive is not accessible or the drive letter has changed..
Usually the actual music files are still there, so you need to check to see if you can find them.
If they are there, open iTunes and select a problem track, right click and select Get Info.
Answer NO when asked if you want to locate the track.
Now you should see where iTunes thinks the tack is located on the summary tab, how does this compare with where the track actually is.
This info should help work out what has gone wrong.

Just Bought 60GB Ipod and how to fix this problem?

Hi Guys,
I just bought a 60GB Ipod and so far iam pretty pleased with my purchase. I had one question though.
Before transferring any songs to the Ipod it is showing only 16.68GB as free space out of a total of 60GB? i have now transferred even a single song? Any ideas how to fix this problem pl?
thanks

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HT204406 how come i have songs that are EXPLICIT but when i upload them to itunes match, they are CLEAN??

anyone know how to fix this?

iTunes Match has been making a bunch of mistakes in the matching, like substituting clean for explicit, Spanish versions for English, etc. Unfortunately, it cannot be trusted. Make sure that you have your own backup of all your music.

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I was listening to some of my child's music and I heard cuss words in it but it was not marked as explicit. I was concerned because my child has almost 10 hours worth of music what can I do about this. Besides go though every one to check that there are not any more like this
Concerned Parent

Joshua0320 wrote:
I was concerned because my child has almost 10 hours worth of music what can I do about this. Besides go though every one to check that there are not any more like this
There really isn't anything else you can do. The clean/explicit labels are provided to Apple by the record labels. Some tracks aren't labeled at all. Sadly, much of the world has "cuss" words in it. It may be time to explain to your child that there are people in the world who use language you find unacceptable? Or, you could listen to all of your child's music....

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This has been going on for three days. I had to restore my iPod because the artwork was scrambling around (anyone know how to fix that too?) and when I tried to reload all my music onto my iPod, it would load on a few songs, but then it would stop on "I Wouldn't Mind" by He is We, which I got off mediafire and never gave me problems before. I unchecked the song when I tried to resync my iPod, and sure enough it just switched over to another song (this one being from a CD) so I don't think it's a file problem, but an iPod problem. I've tried different cables, different USB ports, restarted my computer, uninstalled/reinstalled the latest versions of iTunes, even cleaned the lint from out of my iPod's docking slit. I am using a Dell Inspiron which I got in October, and this is my first time restoring the iPod since transfering my library over from my old computer.
Is there something I can do myself to fix these problems and have my iPod sync normally again??

as to rockmyplimsoul's post.
- unfortunately i don't really remember how i transfered songs to my MB anymore... it was several days ago and i didn't try fixing it until yesterday... after which point i've been through several bouts of struggling against smashing my MB/iPhone, pulling my hair, and punching my counter top several times until finally my girlfriend decided to go home and i quickly set about self medicating with alcohol - probably sounds funny, but true. i'm sober now though! ;p i think when i first went to sync my phone for the first time after resetting my MB, a message came up saying that i had songs on my phone that needed to be transferred to my MB or i would risk losing them during the sync session, so i clicked 'transfer'.
- i have a LOT of non-iTunes content.
- i have over 11,000 items in my itunes library (some of these appear to be sound effects that appeared in my library after i reset my computer - presumably stuff from garage band), and currently have 80 songs on my phone.
- my 'other' category is .86 GB
- i back up to iCloud
- i do use iCloud for other media storage. mostly just reports for work.

How to fix exclamation mark problem

Basically since I updated to iTunes 11 and I went to make a new cd to listen to in the car a lot of my songs have got an exclamation mark next to them and says it can't find the original file so since I HATE the new iTunes i decided to downgrade back to iTunes 10. what ever it was before the update came out to see if that would fix the problem but no that didn't work, so I've since been looking all over Google to try and find a solution to this but everything I found was mostly about moving the iTunes library and how to fix that problem but in my case that isn't the problem at all as I haven't moved the library anywhere, I did find a post about transferring purchases from my iPhone to iTunes so I did that thinking it would fix the problem as all the songs that have the exclamation mark next to them are on my iPhone and play back perfectly fine but iTunes would only transfer my app's not my music, is there a way to change this? Or if anyone else knows how to fix this problem in a different way I would very much appreciate the answer to this problem as it's driving me insane!
Thanks in advance
Jordan

This happens if the files are no longer where iTunes expects to find them. Possible causes are that you or some third party tool has moved, renamed or deleted the files, or that the drive they live on has had a change of drive letter. It is also possible that iTunes has changed from expecting the files to be in the pre-iTunes 9 layout to post-iTunes 9 layout, or vice-versa, and so is looking in slightly the wrong place.
Select a track with an exclamation mark, use CTRL+I to Get Info, then cancel when asked to try to locate the track. Look on the summary tab for the location that iTunes thinks the file should be. Now take a look around your hard drive(s). Hopefully you can locate the track in question. If a section of your library has simply been moved, or a drive letter has changed, it should be possible to reverse the actions.
Alternatively, as long as you can find a location holding the missing files, then you should be able to use my FindTracks script to reconnect them to iTunes. See this post for a detailed explanation of what the script does.
If your media is scattered around you may need to repeat the search using each of the different locations where you have stored things.
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When i click on a song to plat or drag it to a playlist an exclaimation appears next to it . a message says , could not be used because the ori ginal file could not be found. does anyone know how to fix this problemn?

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1. delete this songs from your liblary
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RichardEL is probably correct. I’ll go through your questions.
> there is no Mac OS partition, I assume it would be directly underneath the HD on the left?
I have not seen this particular condition where the hardware disk icon appears but the system volume that is supposed to be below it does not. The System Disk partition would be below the HD icon indented to the right. It is usually called “Macintosh HD” unless you renamed it.
> when I go into disk utility my HD appears on the left, but I can repair or verify it
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> The S.M.A.R.T status reads verified
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> I was thinking of erasing the HD, would this be of any help or do I just need a new one?
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$5 Toolkit: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TOOLKITMHD/
$22 USB 3.0 enclosure: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ES2.5BU3W/
If you attempt a clean install, use the Partition tab to repartition the disk, selecting one partition and with “Options…” electing a GUID partition. Then use the Erase tab, select “Security Options…” and set it to write a single pass of zeros. This will write to every sector to map out bad blocks. (If you have an SSD do not write a pass of zeros.)
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How to fix a problem with my book pro that has a gray screen with a folder with a question mark on it

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No it's not stealing. They have an allowance that you can share with so many computers/devices. You'll have to authorize her computer to play/use anything bought on your acct. You can do this under the Store menu at top when iTunes is open on her computer.
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HT1373 I bought an ipod nano 5th gen and it came with 900 songs on it. How can i retain the music before i authorize this unit to my itunes account? It says it will erase all content once I sync with my imac7. Is there anyway to keep the music??? please h

I bought a used ipod nano 5th gen and it came with 900 songs on it. How can i transfer, sync, and retain the music before i authorize this unit to my itunes account? It says it will erase all content once I sync with my imac7. Is there anyway to keep the music??? please help!!
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The music does not belong to you. You have no legal right to it and there is no way to keep it.
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